![]() ![]() There is, as I have said, an irreproachable logic to Baudrillard’s thought: for if it is the case that the transition from third to fourth order simulation is marked by the erasure of the ostensive power of the sign, and if it is that loss which opens the regime of capital up to the exorbitant forms of production, consumption and self-identification which characterize the hyperreal, then. Socialism was increasingly identified with a planned economy subject to objective laws - an organized form of capitalism. The second section, on economic ideology, is only summar ized here. “Workerism” meant that certain pretended qual ities of workers (discipline, self-sacrifice) were used as a means of repression and that the existence of a “worker base” was seen as a guarantee of the party's revo lutionary character. The denial of social contradictions was combined with praise for the dictatorial apparatus. the reinforcement of the state was identified with the reinforce ment of socialism. This article examines two major themes running through the some times contradictory ideology of Stalinism: 1) “state socialism” as a political ide ology, and 2) the “socialist mode of production” as an economic ideology. ![]() The Soviet ideological formation of the Stalin period was closely linked with the class struggles and the economic and social transformations of that period.
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